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Beer of the Week (w/e 26th April 2026) with Tris39
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The Broad Oak, Rye
Broad Oak
Postal town: Rye
TN31 6EU
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
Strongers . left this review about The Broad Oak
The L-shaped Broad Oak has a laminate floored front bar where an exposed brick fireplace sits on the right-hand wall and seating runs across the front windows either side of the entrance. The serving counter across the rear supports premium keg, Including Hawkstone IPA and cider as well as Brixton Brewery’s IPA. Two of the four hand pumps were in use drawing Harvey’s Best and Wantsum’s 1381 that were available from the polite barmaid. To the left of the bar area is a large table and through to the left is a laminate floored dining area with rows of seating. There’s also a pool table in here, but it was covered with a floral tablecloth. The air was a bit fishy, but my visit was on a Friday afternoon in this food led pub. Out the back is seating on some decking next to the pub’s car park. There are live events advertised, such as music and a quiz, but I don’t think I’ll be visiting again.
On 19th April 2026
- rating: 5
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Broad Oak
Just off the A28 at the village crossroads, this elongated old building has been partly opened out and given a thorough refurbishment inside. Mixture of semi-traditional and semi-modern features, but the decoration is quite light (but just as well since it might have been quite gloomy otherwise). Food led, as you would expect, with dining rooms on each side of the central bar area. I found the local Alliance Gold from Rother Valley and Meekham's Southern Pride (£4.25, brewed somewhere in Sussex by a Richard Harvey for the local Colemans ABC drinks distribution company) from two of the four handpumps.
On 10th April 2023
- rating: 6
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Old Blue left this review about The Rainbow Trout
Just off the A28, this mediocre looking pub has a large main pub area, a smaller more formal restaurant room off to the left and a beer garden beyond. If felt a bit spartan and indifferent, though as we were amongst the first in on Sunday we hadn’t expected to find much atmosphere. On the plus side, there were two ale pumps serving Rother Valley Level Best (not a bad pint of) and Harveys. On the minus side, not having any loo roll in the gents at the start of the day smacks of carelessness. They no longer have the bar billiards table listed on another website, and there is what appears to be a boxed dartboard on one wall, with a table in front of it thereby precluding its use. I would however drop in here again if I was in the area and had an urgent thirst to quench, or had no transport to take me anywhere else.
On 16th March 2012
- rating: 5
[User has posted 271 recommendations about 270 pubs]